ASS: Artificially Sentient Slop

Anyone who has successfully graduated grammar school ought to know that the plural form of “Nostradamus” is “Nostradami”. The hyper-inflation in Nostradami today is unprecedented. [1]

The current flood of Nostradami is leading to rising levels of Doomsday books, for which we (of course) need ever more investments in artificial intelligence. One leading Nostradamus recently wrote:

I spoke with Jack Dorsey right after he left Bluesky’s board, and he made the case for an algorithm store. The algorithms that sift through content for us exist because the average person online is overwhelmed by the amount of information available, and doesn’t know how to find the content they actually want.

https://www.piratewires.com/p/slop-world

As the CEO of Wants [ https://wants.blog ], I feel I have a great amount of expertise with respect to what people actually declare they want. I regret to inform Mr. Solana and Mr. Dorsey that they are probably wrong. Or rather: barking up the wrong tree. [2]

As most users of the Internet have not even reached a level of literacy that would allow them to become aware of the fact that they make such choices all the time, let alone think rationally about whether the motivations behind the companies of the leading brand-name algorithms might be aligned with their own motivations (or NOT), the predictions of such Nostradami ought to be taken with a grain of salt (at least). Indeed, as I myself recently wrote: the visions of these leading brand-name providers are themselves not very visionary either (see “Google can’t answer question about using Google (or NOT)” [ https://search.tech.blog/2025/06/10/google-cant-answer-question-about-using-google-or-not ] ).

[1] I expect the more mathematically oriented among my readership may very well need to read that twice or thrice or even more times. 😉

[2] Please note that due to the rising flooding throughout all media (see also “What is Publicacy + Why does it Matter?“), Nostradami are in fact increasingly being observed to be barking up trees other Nostradami used to pee on, and this is leading to outbreaks of Nostradami taking the piss out of barking Nostradami, and also vice versa.